Anyone’s child had random episodes of vomiting?

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Has you child had random episodes of vomiting? If so, what did it turn out to be?

My 2.5 year old had had a history of reflux and constipation. 8 weeks ago she had a bug and ever since she has vomited 1-3 times per week, always after eating. It tends to follow a pattern of only happening on weekend and is always with a meal (usually breakfast or lunch). The vomit tends to just be the food she has just eaten. I haven’t been able to identify any foods as triggers. Certainly not immediate ones anyway.

The doctors is investigating h.pylori, but I am sick with worry pending further tests.

My son had reflux and dairy and soya allergies. At around 2 he started randomly vomiting about 3 hours after eating we quickly realised it was peanuts causing it. We were referred to an allergist and they diagnosed fpies, no solution just avoiding the food and giving antihistamines if accidentally ingested. As said issue for ds was peanuts but it can be other foods.

@whynotmereally thank you. That’s definitely something for me to mention as I haven’t heard of it before.

we Also find my sons reflux trigger is peanut. What other symptoms your child had beside reflux and did it subside when you stopped giving him peanut or he still need PPI?
( sorry to jump on the thread )

The reflux was when he was a baby it was his dairy and soya allergies causing it,he had rinitidine to help with it.
He first had peanut at around two years old, his symptoms from peanuts was vomiting about 2 hours after ingesting

My DD (now 12) had this loads growing up, dairy seemed to be a trigger. I did take her to the drs after a bad bout of sickness and then it going on randomly for weeks.
They just said her stomach lining was just sensitive to dairy after sickness.

Even now when she's ill she defaults to being sick and if could be a one off random episode and then fine again.

Could it be mesenteric lymphadenitis? DS had it after a bad stomach bug, he'd clearly recovered from the original bug but kept being randomly sick until the inflammation went down.

Yeah my Dd had this from about 2 till 8. Everytime she got a tummy bug she would recover and then randomly be sick afterwards... especially after dairy so limited that she has also always had reflux and still does at 11 but nowhere near as often.

@WompWompBoom @clareykb was the dairy an instant trigger to vomiting, or would it happen some time later? All she wants to eat is fruit and cheese and the episodes never directly follow this or cow’s milk which she has on an evening.

@BabyDoge that’s also quite interesting. I’ll mention it to the doctor. Thanks.

I just can’t seem to figure out why it only seems to come on weekends. Some of the main triggers seem to be Sunday lunch when we’re visiting family (literally vomits it back up every week, even after a couple of spoonfuls), cake, if we have food when we’re out e.g. chips from a fish and chip shop or a cheese sandwich in a cafe; also, some scotch pancakes that my mum was buying in for when she has my daughter sleeping over. I had wondered if it was overindulgence, but she can vomit after a few bites of lunch, even after refusing breakfast. She’s only actually vomited once at home in the past eight weeks, and it was after we’d been out to an Italian restaurant for dinner.

I was wondering about a rapeseed or gluten intolerance, as I don’t use anything with rapeseed myself at home by choice, but can’t account for other people’s cooking. I also mainly use rice and potatoes as our carbs at home throughout the week, but our household is not at all strictly gluten free.

She’s always seemed to have something going on with her digestive system. Infant dyschezia, reflux managed with omeprazole, a good length of time she would only poo at night, severe constipation around potty training as she would hold for up to 7 days.

I possibly should also mention that she has been on two types of antibiotics since the sickness bug, for tonsillitis and a UTI.

She has a daily probiotic since her constipation issues. Plenty water and fibre. Good, varied UPF free diet 80% of the time. She has time to ask for a bucket or bowl each time she feels sick so it’s not projectile or anything. She is absolutely fine immediately after she vomits.

I would strongly suggest that it could be constipation.
My 3 year old had 7 weeks of vomiting every couple of days earlier this year. He has chronic constipation but we didn’t suspect constipation to be the problem as he was still pooing. We went to ED three times over the two month period and eventually they did an abdominal xray which showed obstruction from old compacted poo (he had been pooing around the obstruction)… he had to be admitted for 5 days to be cleared out with strong laxatives.

My husband and I are both doctors, too him to the GP countless times in that period and to a private paediatrician and no one had suspected it was the constipation!

@clinellwipe thank you. This was something I’d wondered about. When doctors have examined her, they say they can’t feel anything unusual, and they don’t seem keen to x-ray ‘unnecessarily’, but this may be something to push for.

Sorry if TMI, but was his poo fairly normal in appearance around the obstruction?

My son’s tummy felt soft too so no one suspected anything. In this period his poo ranged hugely from pebbles to liquid diarrhoea , I think as different ‘ages’ of poo was coming through.

My DD was vomiting every day. It turned out to be caused by her tonsils. Once she had them removed, it never happened again.